How Many Words Per Minute Can You Type?

I'm thinking of starting a new volunteer job in an office setting, so I did an online five-minute typing test this morning. I got 77 words per minute, but I made two errors, so my time was adjusted to 75 words per minute. What's your typing speed these days?

I'm thinking of starting a new volunteer job in an office setting, so I did an online five-minute typing test this morning. I got 77 words per minute, but I made two errors, so my time was adjusted to 75 words per minute. What's your typing speed these days?

I scored a zero because I quit midway through. I'll just hire a secretary.

But really, my typing skills are horrendous. I have to go back and edit about 90% of my posts. (ETA: See? )

PeterG said:

I'm thinking of starting a new volunteer job in an office setting, so I did an online five-minute typing test this morning. I got 77 words per minute, but I made two errorss so my time was adjusted to 75 words per minute. What's your typing speed these days?

117, adjusted with 112. That's a bit faster than I thought; but I type a lot. My composing speed is more around 50 wpm or so; transcribing (especially with the words right there; which is easy) is a lot faster.

at my score. I took typing in high school and it was the only class I've ever flunked. Took an adult community college class and was asked to leave (they gave me my money back) and the only way I managed 25 words a minute when I joined the Air Force was that they let me practice the paragraph over and over before they actually timed me. Its sad.

72 wpm, no errors. I used to get that on a manual typewriter when I was in Grade 10! But I couldn't backspace to correct my mistakes back then either. I stuttered a few times while I was doing the test so I'm sure that cost me some words too.

Wow, you are all amazing!!
I won't even attempt such a test.....I flunked typing in grade 9 cuz I thought the teacher was a bitch, and so now I'm the two finger, hunt and peck type of typer!
This just took me like 2 minutes to type.....
I am a doofus.

My father still pecks with two index fingers, and he's been a computer programmer longer than I've been alive. He got a computer science PhD back when there were only 50 or so in the entire country.

He says he spends most of his time thinking. Typing speed only matters if you're doing secretary work or transcribing work.

My sister used to hunt and peck, until AIM came out and she'd be chatting with 5 friends while writing a paper. Her typing improved to lightning speed very shortly after. She types faster than me, and I just got 87wpm on that test.

Way back in the dark ages when my high school offered "secretarial skills" course, I took typing for the simple reason that I wanted at least one class with no homework. I did only average in it, so it dragged down my grade average, but I was happy to take it for two years just for the break.

Boy oh boy am I glad I did, even if for the wrong reasons at the time - I had no idea then, and I don't think many did, that typing skills would become so important for just about everyone in the near future.

Woah! This takes me back! When I was in high school, we used manual typewriters (think very slow) and getting 35 wpm was basic level, 60 wpm was what you aimed for to get a job. If you had 80 wpm, you were stellar and executive secretary material. My mother was a national typing champion who did about 120 wpm and they wouldn't let her compete at the Canadian National Exhibition because they said she was too fast! When she applied for jobs in our town, she would have to take a typing test (to see if she could do 60 wpm) and she would always leave them gasping when she'd do 100 wpm. "I used to be much faster" was her comment afterwards. All that on manual typewriters!

I got 98 on the test offered here and 91 on typingtest.com. Typingtest.com is definitely harder, but I think part of that is that the first place highlights the text as you type it and typingtest.com shows it below, so if you make an error it can take longer to catch it and fix it.

On typeracer.com, my best is 140wpm. But honestly, I do not recommend it. Sometimes I regret having the ability to type so fast because it's caused RSI. Yeah I try to type more slowly, but inevitably I end up typing fast because I often don't feel the pain until I stop.

Wow, no wonder I only have 1300ish posts here after more than a decade. I type at a sluggish 40 words per minute on a good day. Thank goodness I took typing in high school, or I would be hopeless.

Little skateycat struggles with printing so much that we have investigated typing as a different way of writing. We got him Typing Instructor for Kids, and I will sit with him or near him to help him get through the lesson. He's up to 10 words a minute, up from 13 characters a minute (I counted one day!). This year he did parts of his spelling assignments in Microsoft Word, and he actually said that it made him happy to do his homework that way.